Wouter Pieterse 3 maart 2008 1 Hydrogen, paths of transitions, and geopolitics Exploring the use of coherence between institutions and geography in geopolitics.

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Wouter Pieterse 3 maart 2008 1 Hydrogen, paths of transitions, and geopolitics Exploring the use of coherence between institutions and geography in geopolitics Wouter Pieterse, 3 rd of March 2008.

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4 Research question How can a framework be conceptualized that creates insight in the role of geopolitics in the development of energy systems and what does this role mean for the development of hydrogen as energy carrier? Can coherence play a role in a geopolitical context of energy?

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5 Geopolitics of strategic minerals The international disribution of power as a function of Geographical configurations (location, distance and transport) Climate Security of access to needed materials Haglund 1986

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6 Geography is a technical system Energy Geography involves (technical) infrastructure and/ or networks Value chain: Location, distance and transport; links and nodes Production of resources are geographically fixed, centralized, and generally not where it is consumed.